2011

reportJan 5, 2011

Baby Boomers Struggle As They Near Retirement
short readsJan 5, 2011

Filibuster Reform?

Just a quarter of the public knows that it takes 60 votes to break a filibuster in the Senate.
reportJan 5, 2011

The 2010 Congressional Reapportionment and Latinos

Hispanic voters are nearly three times more prevalent in states that gained congressional seats and Electoral College votes in the 2010 reapportionment than they are in states that lost seats.
reportJan 5, 2011

Faith on the Hill – The Religious Composition of the 112th Congress

The political overhaul of the U.S. Congress after the 2010 elections appears to have had little effect on the religious composition of the legislative body, which is similar to the religious makeup of the previous Congress and of the nation, according to an analysis by the Pew Forum.
reportJan 4, 2011

Internet Gains on Television as Public’s Main News Source

Overview The internet is slowly closing in on television as Americans’ main source of national and international news. Currently, 41% say they get most of their news about national and international news from the internet, which is little changed over the past two years but up 17 points since 2007. Television remains the most widely […]
reportJan 4, 2011

Six Telling Findings from the Iowa Caucuses

The Iowa caucuses produced six small but significant indicators of the dynamics that drove the race.
reportJan 3, 2011

First Baby Boomers Turn 65
reportJan 3, 2011

Young workers to carry scars of Great Recession
reportJan 3, 2011

Wild Winter Weather Tops the Web

The first big East Coast snowstorm of the winter season beat out the economy and domestic terrorism as the top story last week, according to a special web news edition of PEJ’s weekly News Coverage Index. And defeated Delaware Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell, a magnet for media coverage during the 2010 campaign, returned to the spotlight, but not on the most flattering of terms.